It was welcome — perhaps even surprising — news for Hungarian moviegoers to discover that two home-grown productions were sitting at the top of the box office at the start of the year: “Gone Running,” Gábor Herendi’s local remake of the Czech romantic comedy “Women on the Run,” and the ’90s-set musical rom-com “How Could I Live Without You?,” directed by Dénes Orosz.
The two crowd-pleasers, which are both being repped by NFI World Sales at the European Film Market, capped a year that saw some unexpected success stories — such as Bálint Szimler’s arthouse drama “Lesson Learned” drumming up more than 100,000 admissions — alongside signs that Hungarian filmmakers are looking to
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